Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan / Lori Meeks.

Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701-760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In Hokkeji...

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Main Author: Meeks, Lori Rachelle, 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:Multiple
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 23.
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